The Supreme Court today said it will answer this question posed by the Ninth Circuit in Pitt v. Metropolitan Tower Life Insurance Company: “Do California Insurance Code §§ 10113.71 and 10113.72 apply to life insurance policies originally issued or delivered in another state but maintained by a policy owner in California?” (Links added.)
More about the case here.
This was the Ninth Circuit’s first request for Supreme Court help in over a year. And the Supreme Court’s affirmative response is more in keeping with its usual expressions of comity than a couple of recent aberrations. Before today, the court had turned down two of the last three Ninth Circuit requests. In the long run, however, the court has been extremely accommodating, having now granted 22 of the last 25 requests, dating back to July 2018. Before the most recent rejections (in August 2023 and April 2024), the lone denial over the past five years had been in October 2019.
